{"id":376148,"date":"2010-03-01T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=39064"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:20:51","slug":"saab-of-future-past-ursaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376148","title":{"rendered":"Saab of Future Past: Ursaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39067\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/saab-of-future-past-ursaab\/ursaab\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39067\" title=\"ursaab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ursaab-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, Saabs were sleek, teardrop-shaped machines that sliced through the wind. Behold the SAAB 92001, or Ursaab. It&#8217;s the product of postwar aircraft designers, pure form following function. And it&#8217;s gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>The Ursaab was designed in the late &#8217;40s by a team of engineers at aircraft manufacturer SAAB, led by the incredibly named Gunnar Ljungstr\u00f6m. The thing had a monocoque chassis, 108-inch wheelbase, and 50-percent less drag than any other car produced at the time. It was powered by a transverse mounted two-stroke engine driving the font wheels. Seems run-of-the mill today, but this was 1946, a time when most cars rode on ladder frames and bullied their way through wind.<\/p>\n<p>The original 92001 clocked 329,000 miles in testing, mostly on rutted forest roads in Sweden. Three years and several prototypes later, the <a title=\"Wikipedia - Saab 92\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saab_92\" >Saab 92<\/a> went into production.<\/p>\n<p>Saab savior Spyker says that they want to return to those streamlined roots for the upcoming Saab 9-2 luxury compact. I can&#8217;t wait to see what they come up with.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Autoblog - Saab 9-2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/26\/report-saab-9-2-plans-proceeding-design-influenced-by-brands\/\" >Autoblog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Eol10Jz6c7ADtD-G80-cCzhglDo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Eol10Jz6c7ADtD-G80-cCzhglDo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Eol10Jz6c7ADtD-G80-cCzhglDo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Eol10Jz6c7ADtD-G80-cCzhglDo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, Saabs were sleek, teardrop-shaped machines that sliced through the wind. Behold the SAAB 92001, or Ursaab. It&#8217;s the product of postwar aircraft designers, pure form following function. And it&#8217;s gorgeous. The Ursaab was designed in the late &#8217;40s by a team of engineers at aircraft manufacturer SAAB, led by the incredibly named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}